Hi,
Just for completeness the issue turned out to be time synchronisation- one of the 3 nodes was still going to RHN for it's NTP sync rather than our local NTP server which the other 2 were pointed at. I'm guessing that there wasn't enough of a difference for the sync cookie to be rejected but enough of a time skew that they were received in the wrong order although this is pure conjecture on my part and am happy to be proven wrong. They now appear to be a lot happier!
Thanks,
Mark
On 10 Jun 2011, at 16:30, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Friday, June 10, 2011 3:04 PM +0100 Mark Cairney Mark.Cairney@ed.ac.uk wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to use a tool called "Grouper" to provision a hierarchical structure into my LDAP directory.
I'm currently running OpenLDAP 2.4.25 with BDB 4.8.30 on 3 SL5.5 servers in a multi-master configuration.
During the provisioning process it seems to be hitting a race condition where it creates a higher-level ou before the base-level ou is there resulting in the base-level ou existing in the tree with the "glue" objectClass.
As this is invisible to searches I end up with syncrepl constantly trying to replicate it ad infinitum:
I would suggest filing an ITS with configurations and exact instructions on how to reproduce the issue at http://www.openldap.org/its/
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Sr. Member of Technical Staff Zimbra, Inc A Division of VMware, Inc.
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